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Memoirs of Joseph Yativ, born in Nabuel, Tunisia, 1930, regarding his experiences as a child in Nabeul

Memoirs of Joseph Yativ, born in Nabuel, Tunisia, 1930, regarding his experiences as a child in Nabeul Life in Nabuel under the Vichy regime; expulsion of Jews from the schools; imposition of restrictions on the Jews including the yellow badge; breaking into the apartments of Jews and robbing the apartments; murder of Jews who attempted to defend their property; activities of Mordechai Karilla, the head of the Nabuel Jewish community; general meeting of members of the local Jewish community; Mordechai Karilla's request not to take any initiatives; arranging for a trained defense unit made up of community...

File Number : 8585

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Letters and postcards written by Filippo Politi, an Italian soldier, from a POW camp in Germany, the Thorn camp and Targu Mures, and personal documentation belonging to Politi, 1939-1967

Letters and postcards written by Filippo Politi, an Italian soldier, from a POW camp in Germany, the Thorn camp and Targu Mures, and personal documentation belonging to Politi, 1939-1967 Letters and postcards: - Letters and postcards written by Filippo Politi, an Italian soldier, from a POW camp in Germany (M-Stammlager XXA) and the Gemeinschaftslager camp in Thorn to his parents, Giuseppe and Maria Politi in Torino, 1943-1944; - Postcard sent by Filippo Politi to Eugenia Politi in Torino, 20 August 1944; - Letter sent through the Red Cross Organization to Filippo Politi in Targu Mures by his family...

File Number : 2091

Type of Material : Letter, Postcard, Official Documentation, Personal Documents

Language : Italian, German, Hungarian

Testimony of Edith Hirshel née Folk, born in 1931 in Coka, Yugoslavia, about her experiences as a girl in Coka, Senta, Vienna, and Strasshof

Testimony

Testimony of Edith Hirshel née Folk, born in 1931 in Coka, Yugoslavia, about her experiences as a girl in Coka, Senta, Vienna, and Strasshof Pre-war life in the village; offspring of the only Jewish family in the locality; good neighborly relations; moving to Coka in 1939; German occupation; escaping to her uncle's family in Senta; attending a nunnery school and taking Jewish studies; father is murdered in Belgrade; mother escapes to Hungary; antisemitic manifestations; the hellow star edict; the numerus clausus; German occupation of Hungary in March 1944; deportation to Auschwitz; the train stops; a...

File Number : 13556

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Nisim Bekhor Mahlouf, born in Tripoli, Libya, 1920, regarding his experiences in Gharian, as a forced laborer in Sidi Azaz, in Darna, Benghazi and Tripoli

Testimony

Testimony of Nisim Bekhor Mahlouf, born in Tripoli, Libya, 1920, regarding his experiences in Gharian, as a forced laborer in Sidi Azaz, in Darna, Benghazi and Tripoli Home life; Ben Yehuda youth movement activity; imposition of restrictive orders on the Jews; a teacher from Israel sent by the Zionist movement. Air-raids, 1940; escape of the family to Gharian; Italy enters the war; draft of his father to forced labor; Sidi Azaz camp; labor in digging trenches; hunger; synagogue in the camp; hospitalization in Darna; transfer to Benghazi; evacuation of the Jews from the camp in Benghazi to a sealed camp in...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Diamantina Makhlouf, born in Tripoli, Libya, 1926, regarding her life in Tripoli during the war

Testimony

Testimony of Diamantina Makhlouf, born in Tripoli, Libya, 1926, regarding her life in Tripoli during the war Family background; life before the war; studies at a Jewish Italian school. The outbreak of war; school closure; the bombings; moving residence to the synagogue; murder of Jews by German soldiers; living in the city until the end of the war. Life after the war; aliya to Israel.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shlomo Tuli Ben Uzilio, born in Larissa, Greece, 1929, regarding his experiences in the mountains

Testimony

Testimony of Shlomo Tuli Ben Uzilio, born in Larissa, Greece, 1929, regarding his experiences in the mountains Life before the war. Italian occupation; limitations on the Jews; termination of studies; escape to the mountains to various villages; help from the villagers with the encouragement of the priesthood; partisan help to Jewish refugees; liberation. Return to Larissa; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1949.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Chaim Simcha, born in Thessaloniki, Greece, 1917, regarding his experiences as a Greek Army soldier in Athens, in Auschwitz, Katowice, Mauthausen and Gusen

Testimony

Testimony of Chaim Simcha, born in Thessaloniki, Greece, 1917, regarding his experiences as a Greek Army soldier in Athens, in Auschwitz, Katowice, Mauthausen and Gusen Life before the war; attends a Talmud Torah; economic distress and help from the Jewish community Committee. Displays of antisemitism and pogrom, 1933; drafted into the Greek Army, 1938; military service in a military hospital; help in releasing Jewish soldiers from the Albanian front; transfer to a military camp in Athens, 1940; desertion from the army; return to Thessaloniki occupied by the German Army; escape to a village and his former...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Samuel Dentes, born in Khania, Greece, 1929, regarding his experiences in Athens, the Haidari prison, Auschwitz and Budy

Testimony

Testimony of Samuel Dentes, born in Khania, Greece, 1929, regarding his experiences in Athens, the Haidari prison, Auschwitz and Budy Life in Khania and Kavala before the war; move to Athens, 1941. Life under Italian occupation; famine, winter 1941-1942; attitude of the Italian soldiers; German occupation, September 1943; registration of Jews; obligation to report to the synagogue once a week; call from Rabbi Barzilai and the Communist groups to the Jews of Athens to leave the city; yellow badge; collective punishments; confiscation of property; gathering up the Jews of the city and their imprisonment in...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Tova Tonne (Kirshenbaum) Caspi, born in Gura Humorului, Romania, 1929, regarding her experiences as a child in Gura Humorului, Transnistria, Mogilev-Podolski and Murafa

Testimony

Testimony of Tova Tonne (Kirshenbaum) Caspi, born in Gura Humorului, Romania, 1929, regarding her experiences as a child in Gura Humorului, Transnistria, Mogilev-Podolski and Murafa Life before the war; relations with the neighbors. Outbreak of the war; arrival of Italian soldiers in Gura Humorului; Jewish community relief arrangements; deportation to Transnistria by train; life en route including her father's death from typhus; transfer to Mogilev-Podolski; transfer to Murafa; transfer on foot to Mogilev-Podolski with children; life in Mogilev-Podolski without a house; accepted in an orphanage; her...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Moshe Megidesh, born in Cirene, Libya, 1925, regarding his experiences near Benghazi and in Giado

Testimony

Testimony of Moshe Megidesh, born in Cirene, Libya, 1925, regarding his experiences near Benghazi and in Giado Life in Benghazi and Appolonia; move of his family near to Benghazi, 1938. Shelling; deportation by Italian soldiers to Giado, 1942; life in Giado; guarded by Arab policemen; hunger; escape at night to obtain food in the Arab villages in the area; high mortality rate; receives help from the Jewish community in Tripoli; typhus epidemic; religious life; problems with keeping kosher; black market in Giado; liberation by the British Army, 1943. Displays of antisemitism in Libya after the war;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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